VH-FAD  Piper PA-23-150 Apache             (c/n  23-470)

                                    

                                         Two nice images of this 46 year old Apache by George Canciani, both taken in Melbourne,
                                         albeit several years apart.  The upper one, at Essendon, was in November of 2003, while the
                                         lower shot, showing a "new" paint job, was at Moorabbin in August of 2006.   I, personally,
                                         am not crazy about regos painted in type script, and frankly I liked the top livery better. What
                                         would be even better would be to see it refinished in its original scheme as seen in my shot of it
                                         as VH-IAK (and even that wasn't one of Piper's better renditions).  The history of this aircraft
                                         appears in my narrative on that latter registration.